It looks as though your shop is doing well,” Luka said gazing around, “Could you help me find a gift for a lady friend of mine?”My heart plunged to my grenn satin slippers, and I...

Shaking herself, Petunia looked around. Several of her sisters had been talking to her, but she hadn’t heard them. “And that answers our questions about why he gave himself up,” Poppy was saying, a smile...

No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.

[Lily] “Petunia’s hair is too curly to braid,” She said conversationally. Oliver wasn’t sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

Saints preserve us,’ Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen’s shoulder. ‘What have we done to our youth?

She [Pansy] pushed in next to Poppy so that she could see him around the guard’s elbow. She was as tall as Poppy, with shining dark-brown hair and blue eyes. An utterly lovely girl, as...

Lily slumped, putting her shaking hands on his shoulders. “But you will, won’t you?” Pansy’s voice broke into a sob. “Yes, Pan,” Galen said quietly. “I don’t like that,” Pansy said. Galen stood and put...

He dug his heels into his horse’s flanks and sped down the path. He heard the others call out behind him, but he ignored them. He was sure Karl and Johan and the others would...

Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing ‘Ella’ on scraps of paper and then burning them.

And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?” Karl’s eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.

Galen!” The crown princess flung herself into her husband’s arms with a glad cry. The other princesses shrieked and threw themselves at their brother-in-law only a moment later.

We’re almost there, Oliver said. Once again Petunia was so startled that she tripped and would have fallen is Oliver hadn’t caught her around the waist and pulled her upright. “You must have been far...

Love? … It’s at the heart of every story.

Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. “Warn us of what?” Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.

I want to help you,” Oliver said.”Why?” Galen looked up at him. “Because of Petunia?” Oliver was relieved that the prince didn’t seem to be skeptical about his conviction. He simply looked like he wanted...

Love you always, miss you always… running day and night, leaving the place of sun and moon, of ice and snow.Never look back, never forget.

Jonquil went by with a full plate of food, and Petunia reached out and tried to snag a small cream puff from it. Jonquil lifted it over Petunia’s head before she could, and clucked her...

Pansy rolled over and went to sleep, but Petunia stayed awake long after Olga left, and long after Oliver crawled out from under the bed, grabbed some sandwiches, and slipped out the door. She hoped...

Sire,” Oliver said as he helped Petunia to her feet, “I’d like to marry Petunia. “Of course you would,” retorted the King Gregor. “But not right now! we just got those two taken care of.”...